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It is a positive story in a periodical that Trump has consistently praised – except for one issue. The front-page image, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's praise to Trump's role in brokering a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photograph of the president shot from a low angle and with the sun shining from the back.

The result, Trump claims, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the picture may be the lowest quality in history", the president posted on his social media platform.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that appeared as a suspended coronet, but an very tiny one. Really weird! I always disliked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to appear on Time magazine's front page and achieved this multiple times in the past year. The obsession has reached Trump’s golf clubs – in 2017, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers shown in several of his venues.

The latest edition’s photo was captured by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

The perspective highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opening that the governor of California Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the criticized section pixelated.

{The Israeli captives held in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, together with a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The arrangement could be a defining accomplishment of Trump's second term, and it might signify a key shift for the Middle East.

Meanwhile, a defense of Trump's image has emerged from an unexpected source: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to denounce the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's amazing: a photo says more about those who selected it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people driven by hatred and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have picked this picture", Maria Zakharova shared on the messaging platform.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that that magazine featured on the front, despite his physical infirmity, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she noted.

The explanation for Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with innovatively depicting a impression of strength stated by Carly Earl, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she notes. "They chose this shot because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Staring up at someone creates an impression of their grandeur and Trump’s face actually looks thoughtful and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the picture feels tender."

His hair seems to vanish because the light from behind has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. And, while the story’s headline complements the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being shot from underneath, and even if all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are not flattering."

The publication approached the magazine for comment.